misgoverned
past simple and past participle ofmisgovern
misgovern
verb[T]
uk/ˌmɪsˈɡʌv.ən/us/ˌmɪsˈɡʌv.ɚn/togovernacountrybadly
Ruling & governing
- administration
- affairs of state
- ascend
- ascend the throneidiom
- bipartisanship
- government-owned
- government-sponsored
- governmental
- governorate
- hard Brexitidiom
- oppression
- oppressive
- oppressively
- oppressiveness
- overgovern
- subjugate
- subjugation
- super-government
- the politburo
- tinpot
Examplesofmisgoverned
misgoverned
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They are a human cancer, a creeping agony in the flesh of the lands which theymisgoverned, and rotting every fibre of life.
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Of course, in countries that are somisgoverned, skilled and educated people tend to leave.
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They inherit a legacy of administration in a country which has been neglected, starved andmisgoverned.
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The country should sit up and take notice of the way in which it is beingmisgoverned.
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You will take away from him sway over the races which he hasmisgovernedwhere they exist as separate communities.
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The country is significantlymisgovernedbecause legislation is rushed through.
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It is terriblymisgovernedand its resources are not used for the benefit of its people.
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I refute the allegations made in the debate that for the past 50 years the country has beenmisgoverned.
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One of the most obvious ways in which they have beenmisgovernedover the past few years has been through the poll tax.
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I wish to make just a couple of short points that are important to the way in which the country is governed—or, at least in part, significantlymisgoverned.
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His subjects were oppressed andmisgovernedand his rule is very distasteful to the bulk of the population.
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- changing structure
- changing technology
- changing temperature
- changing weather
- changing world
- channel
- channel blocker
- channel capacity
- channel-capacity
- channel conflict
- channel-conflict
- channel development
- channel-development
- channel-hopping
- channel-hopping
- Channel Islands
- channel-islands
- Channel Islands National Park
- channel-islands-national-park
- channelled
- channelling
- channel management
- channel-management
- channel marketing
- channel-marketing